Asynchronous vs. Deferred JavaScript

In my article on Understanding the Critical Rendering Path, I wrote about the effect JavaScript files have on the Critical Rendering Path. JavaScript is considered a “parser blocking resource”. This means that the parsing of the HTML document itself i… Read more

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